Spinning

method of turning fiber into yarn or thread

thumb|upright=1.35|Dyed wool being carded with a 1949 Tatham carding machine at Jamieson Mill, Sandness, [[Shetland, Scotland]] thumb|Cotton carder (known as dhunuri or lep wallah) in [[Howrah, Kolkata, India]] thumb|William Tatham Breaker carder. In textile production, carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. This is achieved by passing the fibres between differentially moving surfaces covered with "card clothing", a firm flexible material embedded with metal pins. It breaks up loc

sheer, lightweight plain-woven textile of fine, tightly-twisted yarn, of silk or various synthetic fibers

multi-spool spinning frame

coarse, broken fibers, removed during processing of bast fibers, used as padding, ropemaking, or to make short-staple yarns

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factory housing powered spinning machinery for the production of yarn

machine used to spin cotton and other fibres

water-powered spinning frame

thumb|A blue worsted wool girl's dress from the United States, made in approximately 1878, from the collection of Conner Prairie Worsted ( or ) is a high-quality type of wool yarn, the fabric made from this yarn, and a yarn weight category. The name derives from Worstead (from Old English Wurðestede, "enclosure place"), a village in the English county of Norfolk. That village, together with North Walsham and Aylsham, formed a manufacturing centre for yarn and cloth in the 12th century, when pasture enclosure and liming rendered the East Anglian soil too rich for the older agrarian sheep breeds

bundle or web of fiber used to spin yarn

Rieter is a producer of textile machinery based in Winterthur, Switzerland.

thumb|Noble comber in Bradford thumb|French comb PB31L for worsted system

machine used to spin cotton

In the textile arts, plying (from the French verb plier, "to fold", from the Latin verb plico, from the ancient Greek verb .) is a process of twisting one or more strings (called strands or plies) of yarn together to create a stronger yarn. Strands are twisted together in the direction opposite that in which they were spun. Plied yarns will not unravel, break, or degrade as easily as unplied yarns. When enough twist is added to the plies to counter the initial twist of each strand, the resulting yarn is "balanced", having no tendency to twist upon itself.

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Industrial Revolution invention for spinning thread in a mechanized way

painting by Francisco de Goya

Grade I listed mill in Cromford, Derbyshire Dales, England, UK

human settlement in North Carolina, United States of America

Woolen (American English) or woollen (Commonwealth English) is a type of yarn made from carded wool. Woolen yarn is soft, light, stretchy, and full of air. It is thus a good insulator, and makes a good knitting yarn. Woolen yarn is in contrast to worsted yarn, in which the fibers are combed to lie parallel rather than carded, producing a hard, strong yarn.

technique for spinning yarn

method of spinning fibres

method of turning fiber into yarn or thread using a spinning wheel or drop spindle

English inventor

1480 collection of popular beliefs